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Thanks for your help! :)

They can definitely eat fruit! Just in small amounts

Hi all, Last week my horsefield had a problem with his eye where he would only open it to look at me and it looked swollen. We've been bathing him everyday and making sure to gently pour water over his face and his eye got better after a couple of days. But now he has a small white dot on his...

Ah that makes sense, thank you!

Thank you for your help!! Unfortunately we don't have room for anything that'll take up more floor space, including the L shape (very small house), but I'll be sure to look at your thread on multilayered enclosures :)

Thanks for the help! That definitely sounds like something my tort would do too 😅 how would the ambient lighting reach both floors? Unless you mean a lamp on both floors?

He's a horsefield, 8 years old but not particularly big. It's just hypothetical at the moment so I haven't really looked into how much total space yet

Hi! I posted on here recently and got the advice to get a bigger enclosure for my tortoise. We unfortunately don't have the floor space to do this, but have had the idea to get an enclosure with an upstairs. Is this safe? And how would it work with getting the heat from the bulb to reach...

Yeah, that's what we usually do :)

Thanks a lot for this :) I'm in the UK too so having the same issue :( don't worry, I'd never leave him unattended especially with our cats around! When we've let him play on the floor before he explores for a bit but then spends the rest of the time sulking under the cupboard. Probably a good...

Thanks for your help :) interesting point about the kitchen floor, I didn't know that! I thought that walking on hard flooring would be good for his nails but I guess I was wrong. Is it safe to take him outside even when it's winter/ raining? Our garden is safe (when he's supervised) but if he...

Thanks a lot everyone for your help! It looks like it's going to be a challenge to get him a bigger enclosure... I brought it up to my family but it didn't go down well AT ALL. I said he needs more space and I was told we all need more space, tough luck 🤷‍. I'm going to do everything I can to...

Thanks for your help! Yep, that's why I'm here :) I suspected that maybe I wasn't given all the correct info when I first got him. Do you think that could be related to why he seems to be sulking at the moment? He did the same thing last year but then perked up so I'm not sure. I plan to read...

Thab thanks for your help! Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear- he's actually 8 years old. The shop I got him from told us to soak him only once a week even when he was a baby... they also told us that pyramiding was caused by overeating. The shop has since closed down so I can't go back to check with...

Hi, thanks for your response. When I'm at home I soak him once I week. I know that my family does it less (they take care of him when I'm not there), but I'm not sure how much less. I'm aware of the pyramiding, we got him when I was a child and he was over fed as a baby (I tried to tell my...